VAN HORN

Info: In this, the artist’s third exhibition at VAN HORN, we see a precise arrangement of new works that engage fully with the material and the space. With his works, Gerold Miller operates at the boundary between image and body. Are Miller’s works still painting, or are they already sculpture? Aspects of both categories can be cited, yet the works themselves transcend these classifications. Miller described this contradictory effect as follows: As »images without an image,« they are neither references to something existing nor do they evoke associations. Nevertheless, they explicitly engage with questions of pictoriality. As viewers, we experience a paradox: through these works—which are positioned very decisively in space and firmly anchored in the real and the present—we are able, on the one hand, to recall the entire visual history of our culture, while on the other hand, we gaze into an indeterminate and open space of possibilities. Miller’s works open up the space around them. Their existence as objects in this space is physically unambiguous, yet remains permeable.